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- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: All of the questions were specifically about assessment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Yesterday, on the Order of Business, I raised the move towards a compromise between the Minister for Education and Skills and the teaching unions. It seemed that common sense had prevailed. However, overnight, the teachers' unions, specifically the Teachers Union of Ireland, indicated it may embark on a series of one-day strikes. This has not been supported by the representatives of the...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to the Minister of State for his reply and I am pleased that the Bill will form part of the wider debate on the Seanad. I am particularly pleased, given the Minister of State's background in both Houses, that he will be central to this debate. While I do not wish to be glib, one would expect a citizen living outside the State to automatically hold a passport, as he or she would...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: That is a moot point.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: While I am prepared to concede the point, which is a minor one, I am certain the issue will be addressed in the context of the Government's response to the recommendations made by the Constitutional Convention. I will nail my colours to the mast and state that I fully support the right of members of the diaspora to vote in presidential elections. As to the wider issue of how to deal with...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The final box from Boston.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: With all due respect, the Minister of State made that point.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: She said it was easy to get elected, not that it was easy to get a nomination.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator cannot do it.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: And the Labour Party.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Excuse me, Senator.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I say to the Leader that flattery gets one everywhere.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator is not too far wrong so far.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Proper order. It is time we got rid of them. They have won too many All-Irelands.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: It was not personal.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: As colleagues on this side of the House will confirm, Fianna Fáil is totally supportive, as is the Government side, of realistic Seanad reform. In fact, some of us managed to persuade the Leader who started off from a position where he wanted to abolish the House to take a policy decision that he would seek to have it reformed. We have had an internal debate within Fianna Fáil on...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to Senator Zappone and am glad she clarified her earlier remarks. I did not for one moment think that she was in any way motivated by a desire to stifle debate but it is important to clarify the context in which she made the comment. This is a drafting issue; perhaps the Senators' advisors did not take account of the point that I made, that there are parts of the world where...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Are we on section 2?